Following a trial on child and spousal support, the respondent sought to re-argue the applicant's entitlement to spousal support.
The court dismissed this as an abuse of process, finding no evidentiary basis to infer post-separation income increases.
On the issue of costs, the court found that the respondent conducted the eight-year litigation in bad faith by failing to disclose relevant documents, stonewalling the income valuation process, and habitually breaching court orders.
The court awarded the applicant costs of $193,000 on a full recovery basis under Family Law Rule 24(8).
